The week in pictures: 23 March 2012

Shangqiu City Public Transportation Company employees are given their monthly salaries using piles of small denomination notes and coins, in Henan Province, Chin. The bus company pays its employees in small denomination notes - forcing them to carry home armfuls of money each month. According to Zhang Weifeng, vice general manager of the Shangqiu City Public Transportation Company, the money for staff wages is made up of the 1 Yuan notes and coins that passengers pay to use the bus. Initially, he says, they worked with local banks to change all of the coins and notes but now all the banks refuse to cooperate as it was too time consuming to count for money for too little profit.Picture: Quirky China News / Rex Features